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In addition to the original mating type, the opposite mating type appeared in the zoospore population of single isolates of Phytophthora parasitica after long-term storage or chloroneb treatment. Occasionally self-fertile zoospores were also detected, but their self-induction nature was transitory and unstable. Both hormone production and hormone reception were changed in the sexual variants. The results explain the apparent change from cross-induction (‘heterothallic’) to self-induction (‘homothallic’) in P. parasitica after long-term storage and chloroneb treatment, and suggest one possible evolutionary origin of sex in the lower fungi.
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